AH is great you can get far better gear then anything that drops for you in normal-nightmare for next to nothing if you know how to search. People are constantly selling great rare items for under 1k sometimes almost at vendor prices. There really isn't much reason no to skim it from time to time to deck your guy out once in a while and make the game go by way easier and faster.
Even now in Hell I'm constantly on the lookout for good deals, raising your dps by a couple of thousand is nothing to sneeze at, or life by a few thousand. As long as you find reasonable prices. One trick i have learned is in the wee hours of the night when there aren't that many people combing the AH you can find real insane deals for great items with superb stats get put out for dirt cheap, because people want fast cash, normally these get bought before you have time to even look at the stats properly, but later at night the time window can extend to a few minutes. I've bought great 1h wepons that raised my dps by a metric fuckton, then when outleveling them and buying new ones i was even able to sell my old ones for a profit.
It's also way cheaper to shop on the AH then ever using the Backsmith or Jeweler, you can always find better gear for cheaper, with the stats you need not random bullshit.
It all comes down to proper searching. Set your base stats, like I'm a monk i look out for weapons that have at least some DEX maybe some VIT, and a socket or a speed boost or some one other enchant. Set you max price. Then sort first by price to see if anyone is selling good shit for cheap, then by DPS, to see if any super high dps weapons are being sold for way below avarage. For armor it's a bit trickier because you can't sort for amor the same way you do for dps at least it doesn't matter the asme way.
Same for selling items, if you know what stats are in high demad you can quickly filter out your rares for shit to vendor and something that would fetch you 5-10K+ in the AH. Just yesterday I stumbled upon a vendor on Hell selling a ring with DEX and Speed Increase % for 6 K, bought like a dozen, sold them all on the AH for 15k a pop, way below market price for such shit, they sold like hotcakes, my only regret is i didn't have enough gold at the time to buy more of those rings from the vendor.
Or if you are a low level char for example high level Hell difficulty gems sell for dirt cheap, far cheaper then crafting them, and with no level restrictions you can put them on low level character. Spend 500g on a couple of socketed items at lvl 15 and put in a couple of Square Rubys, voila you have lvl 30 equiv dps at lvl 15 for next to nothing, everything just melts away.
Play it right and the AH is both a source of great gear and gold.
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